TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Saturday, September 22, the 265th day of 2018. There are 100 days left in the year.

1236 The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

1499 The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.

1586 The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.

1598 English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.

1711 The Tuscarora War begins in present- day North Carolina.

1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg- Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1823 Joseph Smith states he found the golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

1862 A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.

1866 The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay’s only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

1888 The first National Geographic Magazine is published.

1892 Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for The Lost Special by A. C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.

1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history

1910 The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

1927 Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney. 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.

1948 Gail Halvorsen officially started parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Air lift.

1965 The Indo- Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.

1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U. S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

1979 A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.

1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.

1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu- 154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

2013 At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.